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PLACEMENT STUDENT – Procurement Finance

Our culture believes in POWERING YOUR POTENTIAL . We provide global opportunities to develop your career, make your community a better place and work with today’s most innovative thinkers to solve the world’s toughest problems.

We believe in flexibility for you to explore your passions while making an impact through meaningful work within our inclusive workforce. That’s what \#LifeAtCummins is all about.

We are looking for an enthusiastic placement student to join our team specializing in Procurement Finance for our Corporate Supply Chain Finance department in Sandwich, Kent, UK. During your placement with us, you will learn how a major global organization operates, gaining the tools and exposure you will need to become an expert in the industry and power your potential! This role is available to candidates who qualify for a placement year and will commence 1 July 2025.

RESPONSIBILITIES

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Good business partnering & communication skills with the global procurement teams as well as plant finance and procurement finance.
• Working with global plant finance teams to produce a monthly consolidated material variance report by plant and supplier. Further reconciliations and presenting of results follow on from this.
• Specific finance month end activity – Preparing journal entries & reconciliations of Balance Sheet accounts and direct material spend analysis.
• Involvement in Site Employee Development groups – opportunity to get involved in leading projects, presenting within these groups and engagement with other group members.
• Data analysis to support cost reduction initiatives producing a monthly global consolidated report by individual cost reduction project
• Lead, as well as participate in, some project work within the team

QUALIFICATIONS

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Working towards a degree in Accounting & Finance or degree in a relevant field (business, maths, economics) with accounting
• Intermediate level of excel and ability to work with large amounts of data
• Strong analytical & Organisational skills, attention to detail and focused.
• Good communication skills with ability to work on own initiative or as part of a team

Working at Cummins

At Cummins, we are dedicated to diversity in the workplace and our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, and/or expression or other status protected by law.

CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 25 th December

Job Finance

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category Hybrid

Job Type

ReqID 2406746